Photography

  Sunday, 23 July 2006

Make Keyword Assistant work with newer iPhoto versions < 12:04:31 AM>.

Keyword Assistant (KA) for iPhoto received a 9/10 MacOSXHints rating back in August 2004 as a Pick of the Week. It's been a great productivity enhancer, until iPhoto was updated past 6.0.2 -- Ken Ferry has not updated KA since then, and he designed it to limit KA's features when an iPhoto version beyond 6.0.2 was installed.

This was terrible for me, since I depended so much on KA -- I emailed Ken several times to no avail -- and then browsing VersionTracker's comments one day, I noticed this suggestion by editcandy:

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  Thursday, 18 May 2006

O'Reilly's "Inside Lightroom" Armed and Dangerous < 11:12:03 PM>.

Inside Lightroom is a new O’Reilly site loaded with tips and techniques for mastering Adobe’s breakthrough photo workflow application. Start by listening to an audio interview with published author Julianne Kost as she discusses Lightroom’s impact for digital photographers.

Then go the the Adobe Labs page and download the latest version of the public beta. To help you get comfortable quickly, also download our free 22-page “getting started” PDF by O’Reilly author, Ken Milburn, titled From Darkroom to Lightroom.

We’re firing up the blog posts too. For example, do you know how to add music to a Lightroom slideshow? Check out this slideshow tip to get the scoop.

Lots more to come… stay tuned.

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"Camera buffs were stunned in January when Konica Minolta Holdings Inc., which traces its roots to 1873, said it was quitting the camera business altogether — digital and film — and selling its digital assets to rival Sony Corp.

Nikon Corp. said the same month it would stop making seven of its nine film cameras and concentrate on digital models.

Fuji Photo Film Co., which plans to cut 5,000 jobs, changed directions last month announcing it would spend nearly $8.5-million (U.S.) to diversify into pharmaceuticals.

Europe's biggest film maker, Germany's AgfaPhoto GmbH, couldn't adapt at all; it's now bankrupt and liquidated.

Meanwhile, Antonio Perez, who is leading Eastman Kodak Co. through a four-year digital remake, has warned that Kodak, the pioneer of point-and-shoot photography, is now "at the worst possible place" after a $1.03-billion third-quarter loss."